Design/Redesign Assessment for Online & Using Rubrics
Developing Effective Assessment
Assessment is defined as “the process of gathering information about a learner’s performance to make educational decisions”. Universal Design for Learning (UDL) encourages “assessment by design.”
UDL principles for assessment allow students to showcase their knowledge and learning by providing 1) multiple means of engagement; 2) multiple actions and expression; and 3) multiple means of representation. Guided by UDL principles Links to an external site., a well-designed assessment will provide opportunities for students to articulate and demonstrate their skills and knowledge in different ways. The video below summarizes how UDL can be applied to assessment design for remote classes.
UDL and Assessment: An Introduction to UDL and Assessment [03:09]
Design Assessment in Bruin Learn
Bruin Learn Assignments can be used to:
- Assess how well students are achieving course Outcomes
- Set up online submissions that can be quickly graded in the SpeedGrader
- Grade online as well as student work submitted "on-paper"
- Create differentiated assignments for sections
- Set up peer reviews
- Grade Discussions, either by the whole class or student groups
- Open Quizzes for a limited amount of time
- Record attendance
- Create ungraded activities that align with course Outcomes
- Assess submissions with moderated grading and multiple reviewers
Examples of Assessments in Bruin Learn
In the Google slides below, you will find examples of how assessments are applied in Bruin Learn.
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Providing Effective Feedback: Using Gradebook/Rubrics in Bruin Learn
Rubrics are a way to set up custom or Outcome-based assessment criteria for scoring.
A Rubric is an assessment tool for communicating expectations of quality. Below is an example of a rubric,
Rubrics are typically comprised of rows and columns. Rows are used to define the various criteria being used to assess an assignment. Columns are used to define levels of performance for each criterion.
Rubrics can be set up as non-scoring rubrics, which allows for assessment-based and outcome-based grading without points.
(Above information is from Canvas Guide: What Are Rubrics)
How to add rubrics
You can add a rubric to an assignment to assist students in understanding expectations for the assignment and how you intend to score their submissions. Occasionally, rubrics are added to assignments when you have an outcome inside of the rubric that you would like to use for alignment purposes. In addition to assignments, rubrics can also be added to graded discussions and quizzes.
You can add an existing rubric or create a new one.
Visit the following Canvas guides for direction on adding rubrics. (Links to an external site.)